The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-11-04
NUMBER 20
PRESS OPINION.

IHntadelplia hec0fd: IL is 100 OfteI
the case that when corporations engage
counsel they buy the lawyer and th,
ran with the same fee.
i Minneapolis Tribune: Chicago is th,
recipient of barrels of sympathy from
the st. Louis press ON account Of thu
failure of that military encampment
When st. Louis does get chance Il
pity Chicago she pities her hard.
i Philadelphia Record. The interference
of powerful institutions or corporation
with the common rights of the people
in an abuse much more fragrant and in
defensible than the existance of an,
number of bucket-shops.
st. Louis Post DispGtch: Editor Grad,
is still young enough to learn the differ
ence between an eminent public sery
ant and "the greatest ruler on earth. .
1t is well to note such a difference in
making speech that is liable to be
printed.
Buffalo Express: Mr.. Washburne was
not brilliant statesman, but rather q
well-balanced man of kindly instincts
and extreme good judgment He was
an intense American, but not the less
was he respected abroad as very cred
liable representative of his country.
New York Sun: The civil-seryice law
is certainly foolish and probably uncon-
stitutional, but at its worst it is excellent
compared with the vexations and tyran-
nical Entertainments made by couple
of commissioners upon the political
rights of a considerable body of their
fellow citizens.
Peoria Transcript: Mr.. Washburne
caused the American flag to be respected
by class who at times respected moth
ing human or divine. He was one of the
purest and best of statesmen, and the
country may well mourn his loss.
Cincinnati Enquirer: The President
has now but few weeks in which to
write his message, and his right arm is
said to be almost useless from continu-
GUS Misunderstanding upon his trip. 1t
seems to us that the circumstances justi-
fly him in making it short-very short.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: The victory
of the Illinois bucket-shops in their legal
contest with the Chicago Board of Trade
will be applauded by good many
thoughtful persons throughout the coun-
try who hold no business relations with
either class of institutions.
Utica Press: The public career of Elihu
B. Washburne is that of typical Amer
lean who has ability and pluck. His en-
inence was the result of his own effort,
and whatever duty was assigned him he
endeavored to discharge it faithfully.
His public services have won for him an
honorable place in the history of his
country.
New York Times: There are many
lines of analogy between the Tweed ring
and the German ring. The German
ring is managed by much the same
methods and with very like objects. In
each case the control of the State de-
ponds upon success in the chief city OF
the State, and in each case the ring is
closely connected with National politics.
New York Tribune: But the denial of
all political rights to half million of
Americans is just as great a crime as if it
were not thousand miles away. Sup
pose Republicans had DISTINGUISHED and
robbed of all political rights half the vo-
tiers of this city, for no other reason than
because they were Democrats, would
this have seemed little thing?
Peoria Transcript: There is one thing
to be SAID in favor of Mr.. Jefferson
Davis. He is not electioneering for an
| other term.
Philadelphia Inquirer: There is a
contest coming between the American
boy who wants to earn his own living
and the labor bosses who won't let him.
Atlanta Constitution: Under the OPP
erations of the excise system, whisky is
freer now than it ever was. 1t Is so
free that temperance laws can not touch
its manufacture.
Salt Lake Herald: 1t would be better
for the republic if all the public men
| were as honest and circumspect as
Eihu B. Washburne, if they did not
possess half the ability.
New York Tribune 1t is Mr.. Cham
berlain himself who is imperilling the
chances of satisfactory issue of the
negotiations by his i'll advised and irri-
table speeches in England.
Los Angeles Times: Should General
Sheridan become the Republican candi-
date for president, he would not be
"twenty miles away" on the day of
election. He will be thar"
Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal: Illinois
is now claimed by the Democrats. In
their capacity to claim" the Demo-
Gratis are strange mixture of Sir Roger
Tichborne and Myra Clark Gaines.
Sioux City Journal: Laboring men
don't care cent whether the British
Golden Club is benevolent or malev-
client association. 1t hurts Just the same
to be hit on the head by it.
New York Times: Manv men complain
that they are denied the opportunity TO
draw wages satisfactory 10 themselves.
This is what they mean when they say
they say they are denied an opportunity
to labor.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: If there
were any errors committed in their
trial, they were certainly not of such a
character as to conceal the truth; and
the truth is they are unquestionably
guilty, and should consequently pay the
penalty which the law prescribes.
Rochester Democrat. In these col
umns his "Recollections of a Minister to
France" have been reviewed, and it is,
from reading of its pages, that our adj
miration has been increased and our in
terest restimnlated, in one who was one
of the purest and best-equipped of re-
cent American statesmen, and who was
also one of the most gracious and lovable
of men.
The collectors of customs at all fishing
centers in Nova Scotia are furnishing to
the Dominion authorities special siate-
ments of the present seasons importa-
ton and expectation of fish and impor-
tation of American bait, in order to
place the latest and most reliable statis-
tics on the question in the hands of the